Bungie Answered
Dire Marsh Exfil Location Lockdown & Matter Transfer Timer Glitch?
- Bungie Account Name - metaw0lf (zero not O)
- Platform - Steam
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Description of Issue - I had a near perfect 25 minute run and proudly made my way to a guarded exfil with less than a minute left. I mean, looted, took down runners and completed Sekgen 3/5 Parasitism. But then, 2 strange things happened and they led to a ruined run and 25 minutes wasted. If ultimately, this is on me for not understanding something, totally fine. But, I searched the discord and other places for information about this situation and could not find it...
I was on Dire Marsh > Run timer was nearly up < 20 seconds when I reached the guarded Exfil adjacent to Greenhouse. Greenhouse had the only regular Exfil site remaining but it was in Lockdown, so I moved to the adjacent gaurded exfil. The run timer expired and "Final Exfil" was announced... however, nothing changed on the map. Both existing Exfils remained. That was strange thing #1.
Strange thing #2 -- I activated the guarded exfil and grappled up on top of the high part of the yellow building where this exfil site is. Bots saw me eventually and I got a grenade that landed on top right next to me, downed me. All fine, I clawed my way down and over to the ACTIVATED Exfil ring. And instead of a 0:10 second Matter Transfer, it paused and then showed a 0:30 second Matter Transfer. A bot latched onto me and sucked out my soul, while I sat there deflated and wondering why on earth was there a Matter Transfer of 30 seconds??
So for strange thing #2... is there some in-game mechanic for a 30 second, instead of 10 second exfil? I have never run into that before, and I absolutely would have exfilled successfully if this did not happen. Instead, I died, 25 minutes, ~2500 credits worth of loot gone, have to start that SekGen 3/5 Anti-parasitism contract all over which is even worse, bleh. That's not fun though guys. But, if there is a mechanical/game-based reason that it was 30 seconds, that's totally cool and I will take that as a lesson learned is all.
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Rough Date and Time of issue - Just happened about 20 minutes ago. 03/26/2026 ~10:55am CST
- Repro steps - Details of what happened and led to this potential issues in above section.
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LINKS: Unfortunately, I didn't think to get any as I wasn't even sure in the moment if that was supposed to happen. But, after thinking about it, felt wrong. This is the only time I've seen a 30 second matter transmit timer and I've done plenty of exfils in guarded exfil stations and final exfil segments. I've also never seen a final exfil locked in a lockdown location.
Thanks guys, stinks this happened, but otherwise love this game!
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Hello there,
Thank you for reaching out.
Normal / guarded exfils always use a 10-second Matter Transfer once the beam is up and you’re in the ring.
The 30-second timer you saw is the “final ring / final exfil” session timer, which starts when the match is about to hard-end. In some edge cases, that global timer and a normal/guarded exfil overlap, and the UI ends up showing the longer timer even though you’re standing in what looks like a normal exfil. This is confusing and can result in players being eliminated during or right after the beam, despite doing “the right thing.”
So:
Strange thing #1 (Final Exfil call but map icons not changing): Final exfil can reuse existing exfil sites instead of spawning something obviously new, so the map doesn’t always “visibly” change when the announcement hits.
Strange thing #2 (10s → 30s in the ring, then death): That’s part of a known issue where starting or using an exfil very late in the match (right as final exfil / final ring kicks in) can result in the session end killing you even while the exfil VFX/timers are playing.
We are aware of this issue and are currently investigating.
Thanks for feedback and impressed at the TaT! I've noted it and glad you all already have a trail on that issue. Have a good one!
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